You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
BARRY MANILOWYou know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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I couldn’t bear the road anymore. I’m sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time will say the same thing. After a while, waiting for bedroom service and planes – I wanted to go home.
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When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn’t even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
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We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest.
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If I Should Love Again’ – I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn’t a single and people didn’t really know about it, but it’s a beautiful song and that’s part of what I’m loving.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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First of all, I’ve been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn’t write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
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Keep your family and old friends around you. That’s what I had done and that’s what saved my life when it came to being famous.
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These days, with ‘American Idol’ and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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